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Sounds Like “Lead” Not “Lead[2]” & It’s Spelled L.E.E.D.

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LEED, and printed like that, sounds like “Lead” and stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. It makes for a pretty catchy acronym. To quote the website usgbc.org: “LEED (as in the program) provides building owners and operators with a framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions.“ [...]
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Building Moxie with Shannon Rogers @McIlvainLumber

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Now, while I am a super big fan of wood, in fact -- I love it, I can’t claim really to know all that much about it. Or at least this is how I felt after walking the yard with Shannon Rogers. Shannon, you see, is not only McIlvain's Director of Marketing, he is also a furniture maker, an instructor and, well, a blogger. And quite a prolific one at that. (I reprinted one of his articles here in early October.) [ . . . ]
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That’s the Power of . . . Blogging :: the DAP Products Seal Your Home Blogger Challenge Edition

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But with that came another invitation. And here we are, I am proud to announce too that Building Moxie is a participating partner in DAP’s Seal Your Home Blogger Challenge. “Huh? What? What’s that?” Well nutshelling . . . @DapProducts has provided me with a $100 gift card and I will use it to purchase $100 worth of DAP Products. The challenge – prepare my home for winter. In other words, I will be weatherizing. [ . . . ]
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Those are Plants, not Weeds, on my Roof :: Green Roofs

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What is a Green Roof? Technically, color has nothing to do with it. Numerous four-inch garden trays of plants (the Sedum) in a special soil are installed on a roof to capture water that would otherwise fall to the ground or be carried in a gutter eventually beating against the soil below to cause erosion. [ . . . ]
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How Long Does it Take for Home Solar to Pay Off?

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when you consider that home solar power immediately reduces your energy bills or even eliminates them altogether, as well as conserves the planet’s natural resources, the answer is simple: the solar payoff begins now. [ . . . ]
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